I'm listening to workmen playing Steely Dan and tearing out some rotten wood from the soffit. ("Soffit" is a word I just learned a couple of weeks ago from my 94-year-old mother.)
[Update, 9/29: They're now playing the Eagles, interspersed with other music primarily from the '70s. Still some Dan in the mix.
When I was in college in the '80s I was amazed at one administrator's knowledge of the music of the '50s. Now I'm in that administrator's position regarding music that's almost 50 years old rather than "only" 30 years old. Yikes.]
How do you write about the cool things you've found in the archives without making your paper sound like it should be titled, "Cool Things I Found in the Archives?"
The summer is over, so I'm getting ready for the semester that starts next Wednesday. (Yikes!)
I came across this video on YouTube and want to put it here to watch later and share with my reader(s). I thought it looked interesting. It's a debate from 1956 among high school exchange students from the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, and the UK about prejudice.
What caught me about the beginning of the video (I didn't have a chance to get far into it) is when the moderator asked the students about their own prejudices. When she gets to Raul Contreras, a fifteen-year-old from the Philippines, he directly says he is prejudiced against the Japanese, and glances somewhat furtively at the Japanese girl on his right (Yoriko Konishi) while he explains why. Not surprisingly, his prejudice comes from the Philippine experience under the Japanese during World War Two. He admits he's too young to have really understood it himself, but his feelings come from what older relatives have told him about their experiences.
Hope I get a chance to watch the whole thing at some point. (Maybe even figure out a way to use it in one of my classes?)
There are some other videos like this, with "debates" from students from different countries. They're from a YouTube channel called ArchiveMC, which has posted a lot of Cold War-era videos.
[Update, 9/4/21: I should add that if you watch the video on YouTube, you'll see in the comments that Raul's daughter has responded to the video and provided more information about his life and subsequent career. It's really interesting! Some information is also given about Yoriko.]
